Message by Rev Tan Eng Lee on 19 Mar 2017 @ SSMC

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REV TAN ENG LEE | 19 MAR 2017
LOVEtHE ESSENCE OF MINISTRY

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‘Love the Lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all your
mind. This is the greatest commandment.
The second is like it: Love your neighbor
as yourself.’
Matt. 22:37
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Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
And yet I will show you the most
excellent way. (1Cor. 12:31)
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Follow the way of
love and eagerly
desire spiritual gifts.
(1Cor. 14:1)
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If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels,
but do not have love, I am only a resounding
gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of
prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and give over
my body to hardship that I may boast but do
not have love, I gain nothing. (1 Cor. 1-3)
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What is Love?
Christian love is not the
victim of our emotions but
the servant of our will.
Rev. John R.W. Stott.
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Love is patient, love is kind. It
does not envy, it does not
boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is
not self-seeking, it is not easily
angered, it keeps no record of
wrongs.
(1 Cor. 13: 4-5)
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8. Love does not delight in evil but
rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always
hopes, always perseveres.
(1 Cor. 13: 5-6)
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The Supremacy of Love
Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies,
they will cease;
where there are tongues,
they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge,
it will pass away.
(1Cor. 13:8)
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For we know in part and we prophesy
in part, but when completeness
comes, what is in part disappears.
(1 Cor. 13: 9-10)
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What is that completeness?
Over realized eschatology:
Already achieved: kingdom of God
has dawned; Messiah is reigning, the
crucial victory has been won; the final
resurrection of the dead has begun,
the Holy Spirit has been poured out on
the church.
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But the Kingdom has not yet come in
fullness:
death still exercises in power, sin must
be overcome, power of darkness still
at war against us.
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For now we see only a
reflection as in a mirror; then
we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I
shall know fully, even as I
am fully known.
(1 Cor. 13-12)
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And now these three remain: faith,
hope and love. But the greatest of
these is love.
(1 Cor. 13:13)
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not
envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-
seeking, it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices
with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
(1 Cor. 13:4-7)
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17.
We love for He first loved us.
(1John 4:19)
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